Tuesday August 4, 2009, 2:37 pm
There are a couple of news articles (democrat.com) that has the names of "protesters" who showed up to protest the recount of the 2000 election...all were staffers for some Republican think tank/lobby firm, etc.

I'm betting these are paid protesters, brown shirt shills sent by some republican lobby firm...some guy named Koch funds them...They are "actors" for the right wing agenda who show up and as " the single mom who cries out God Bless you Sen. Chri$tian Republican", protesters who claim taxes are too high when they work as a marketing analyst for an insurance lobby or Tom Delay's office... they are plants.

We need more reporters who know the faces of lobbyist and staffers, where they work, who they work for, and keep exposing these people as the frauds they truly are.

--and--

It's probably not too soon to note the thread connecting the Bush administration's practice of only allowing certified Bush-loyal attendees at their town hall events (from the Social Security phase-out
day) and what's happening now with these tea-party activists ginned by Freedom Works with instructions to shut down Democratic town halls dealing with health care. From a superficial perspective one might say, well, isn't the point that the town halls aren't supposed to be scripted to a T?

You want to get some hustle and bustle, some engagement of opposing views? But as I noted earlier, what the tea bagger mobs are doing is qualitatively different. They're sending in these groups to shut down the meeting entirely.

Both cases are distressingly telling examples of the authoritarian mentality so often found in right-wing politics -- force and mob action to shut down actual discussion. It two sides of the same coin -- the
right in power versus the right out of power.

Par for the course.

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 4:07 am
thanks tom great story

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 5:13 am
the town hall meetings were regular people who want their voices heard...even the polls show the majority of americans are against gov. run heath care ...and if obama was so popular why didnt he get his own people to show up at these town hall mettings??...and please give examples of this so called hate speech....these people speak the truth even if it hard for liberals to hear the truth..we need people to use their freedom of speech to stop socialism and get this country going back in the right direction...and remember fox news and rush limbaugh are number one in just about every rating which in not a coincidence but shows what people want to hear...the truth and emotion..not lies..

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 8:52 am
Thanks Tom..
Noted..

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 12:52 pm
Ego tists that want it there way or the highway . They can't stand change because it means they are giving up their way to long dominant stance!!!! They do not care for others only themselves. Selfish old white men!! I could go on and on and on.....
Thanks Tom

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 12:59 pm
It's called freedom of speech and oh yeah, "community organizing"

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 1:00 pm
Tales from the Lobotomy Ward: The Stupidest Republican Talking Point I've Heard in a Long Time

It's moronic for conservatives to believe that they will derail a proposed universal health care system by likening it to a program whose only problem is that the public loves it far too much.

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 1:04 pm

Republican Right Wingers : The Faces of Ignorance and Hate


Philadelphia, Pa, August 2: This afternoon, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, I saw the face of ignorance and hate--and it wasn't pretty.

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 3:58 pm
It is overt and nasty racism and it is scary. I have seen loving people who would do anything for you watch shows like this and the fringe right talk radio and turn into people who have become extreme rascists esp since I live in Southern California where apparently the world is coming to an end because we allow starving people to come here to work and yes we do give them medical treatment. What is it about this crap that puts peoples logical mind to sleep?

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 4:16 pm
AP omits Penn. killer's racist diary rants

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 4:31 pm
Joe Jones.."we need people to use their freedom of speech to stop socialism"..speaking as a socialist I am insulted that you think that this Obama administration with its nose stuck firmly up the bosses arse cheeks.This lot are one point one degree to the left of Bush,and are leaving the astronomical wealth gap,within the most unequal economy in the world ever ,largely intact.By whose recognisedand respected measure are they moving towards socialism?..and you can't include that blubbering idiot Glenn Beck as he is neither respected or recognised as anything other than an extremist.
.Have you ever read any proper books?Y'know without pictures or pop ups?You don't really do history books do you?I'd suggest Susan George's social-political examination of the last few decades..or Craig Ungers Fall Of The House of Bush..They are both better than "Why Helping Other's Is Part Of Satans Plan For A Communist America"(Recommended for 2-6 year olds) by Sean Hannity .

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 6:30 pm
Glenn Beck pleads with his audience not to resort to violence: 'Just one lunatic like Timothy McVeigh could ruin everything' [for me]

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 9:04 pm
Freshman Democratic Lawmaker~Physically Assaulted at a Local Event By Activists.
As lobbyist-run groups encourage conservative activists to "rattle" members of Congress at local town hall events, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), president of the freshman Democratic class revealed that "at least one freshman Democrat" has already been assualted

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 9:30 pm
These two twits...Limbaugh and Beck deserve each other...what a sad example of human behavior. They need an island of their own so that can rant to their hearts content...to vast quantity of thin air....and to one another.

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 10:09 pm
RepubliCON$ will say anything, do anything, use anyone ... Grassley Uses Kennedy's Brain Tumor To Spread Fear Of Rationing

Thursday August 6, 2009, 6:55 am
They are only following orders.

Thursday August 6, 2009, 6:57 am
Trying again....They are only following orders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMDur9CDZ4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fneoavatara%2Ecom%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D7355&feature=player_embedded

Thursday August 6, 2009, 7:07 am
their perfectly comfortable worlds are changing, and it scares the crap out of them, a frightened dog barks louder than the rest........thanks Tom

Thursday August 6, 2009, 7:26 am
If you think this is only republicans you are fooling yourself.

Thursday August 6, 2009, 9:38 am
Think Progress, MSNBC 'Manufacture' a Story With Putative Smoking Gun 'Mob' Memo
When the "manufactured" outrage the Left is trying to demonize lines up so inconveniently with public polling, it's sometimes necessary to create evidence for the "manufactured" storyline.

Enter Think Progress, which unearthed this shocking, secret memo from the leader of a small grassroots conservative organization in Connecticut, which allegedly instructs members on "infiltrating town halls and harassing Democratic members of Congress."

Right Principles PAC was formed by Bob MacGuffie and four friends in 2008, and has taken in a whopping $5,017 and disbursed $1,777, according to its FEC filing.

"We're just trying to shake this state up and make a difference up here," MacGuffie told me during a telephone interview. He's surprised at his elevation to national rabble-rouser by the Left.

Right Principles has a Facebook group with 23 members and a Twitter account with five followers. MacGuffie describes himself as an "opponent of leftist thinking in America," and told me he's "never pulled a lever" for a Republican or Democrat on a federal level. Yet this Connecticut libertarian's influence over a national, orchestrated Republican health-care push-back is strong, indeed, if you listen to liberal pundits and the Democratic National Committee, who have crafted a nefarious web out of refutable evidence.

Think Progress highlighted his memo's directives to "‘Yell,’ ‘Stand Up And Shout Out,’ ‘Rattle Him’," calling it a "right-wing harassment strategy against Dems." The blog falsely connected MacGuffie to the national conservative group FreedomWorks through the most tenuous of threads. The Think Progress link that purports to establish MacGuffie as a FreedomWorks "volunteer" leads to his one blog posting on a Tea Party website (on the free social networking site, ning.com). Think Progress calls Tea Party Patriots a "FreedomWorks website."

The problem is it's not a FreedomWorks site, according to FreedomWorks spokesman Adam Brandon. FreedomWorks is a "coalition partner" of TeaPartyPatriots.org, but does not fund the site in any way.

"There is no formal structural connection," Brandon told me. "Never has been. Never will be. We're just fellow travelers in the movement."

When I asked MacGuffie if he was a volunteer for FreedomWorks outside the specious evidence Think Progress cited, he said, "Absolutely not. You can Google all day; you won't find it. There is no formal connection. I don't know anyone from FreedomWorks."

He joined the Tea Party Patriots community site when it was mentioned to him by several local Tea Party activists (whom he admits knowing . . . smoking gun!), and "blogged there, very little." So MacGuffie, a local activist in Connecticut who never volunteered for FreedomWorks wrote a memo and also wrote a blog post on a site not paid for or hosted by FreedomWorks. There's your national conspiracy, folks.

Thursday August 6, 2009, 10:04 am
The RNC only wishes it could mobilize the diverse crowds that are showing up to have their voices heard.

Thursday August 6, 2009, 1:24 pm
Being racist... brings down a nation... they should learn from South Africa... after we reversed our racial issues, South Africa has become blessed, and has a booming economy, a place where people want to come, as there is stability... Racism brings disruption and discord, and eventually war... it is a negative thing

Thursday August 6, 2009, 1:44 pm
HCAN Playbook For Thwarting Town Hall Protesters
How to deal with the crazy GOPers.

Thursday August 6, 2009, 1:59 pm
Obama Faces More Than 30 Death Threats A Day
400 Percent Increase From Bush

Thursday August 6, 2009, 2:09 pm
Revealed: SS Nazi sign carried at town hall protest Update: Swastika pic surfaces, Rush likens Obama to Hitler

Thursday August 6, 2009, 2:32 pm
The Texas GOP’s endorsement of these tactics joins remarks by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) that the “fear” and “anger” of Americans over health care reform present “real opportunities” for the Republican Party.

The Texas GOP isn’t alone in encouraging the mob protests, though. On a blog post titled “Here’s to Mob Rule,” Connecticut Republican chairman Chris Healy yesterday listed off the times and locations of several health care town halls. In the post he wrote that “one perrson’s [sic] mob is another person’s concerned’s citizen’s group” and remarked that if members of Congress “get upset because people are shouting at them, maybe they should listen.”

Thursday August 6, 2009, 3:00 pm
Contrary to Steele’s Claim, State Republicans Are Actively Promoting Town Hall Mobs and Violence

Thursday August 6, 2009, 3:28 pm

VIDEO: Republican Right-Wing Rage Cultivated At McCain-Palin Rallies Being Harnessed To Oppose Obama's Agenda Today


Some attendees admit they don't live in the Congressman's district, so why attend the meeting? The wave of unfounded, anti-Obama hate found legitimacy through the McCain Presidential campaign last year. Republicans are actively supporting the hate...

Thursday August 6, 2009, 3:56 pm
Maddow calls out Republican operatives behind healthcare mobs

Thursday August 6, 2009, 6:03 pm
for every "plant"..... there are 99 average people concerned about their future....polls show that american voters are against this bill...so its should be no surprise that these town hall meetings didnt go so well for dems..but crying that they are all plants is a pretty sad excuse

Thursday August 6, 2009, 6:43 pm
they don't want to hear facts Joe

Thursday August 6, 2009, 9:14 pm
Missouri's Republican Rep. Akin and other conservative leaders have whipped up the right-wing base with a combination of lies and rage, and the results have bordered on dangerous. One Democratic lawmaker has received death threats because he supports health care reform. Another Democratic lawmaker was "physically assaulted." Far-right activists have registered their misguided, uninformed fury with everything from nooses to tombstones to signs with Nazi "SS" lettering.

Akin opposes health care reform; I get that. He's a far-right lawmaker who probably finds right-wing mobs comforting. But under the circumstances, maybe now would be a good time to skip the lynching jokes?

Thursday August 6, 2009, 10:51 pm


Republican Teabaggers yell "Kill Your Parents" at Monday's Health Care town hall with Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH)

Thursday August 6, 2009, 11:13 pm
WATCH: Glenn Beck Jokes About Putting Poison In Nancy Pelosi's Wine

Thursday August 6, 2009, 11:25 pm
Fox News' Glenn Beck's Republican fans turn health forum into 'near riot'

Friday August 7, 2009, 3:49 am

Right-Wing Turncoat Gives the Inside Scoop on How the GOP Is Screwing Its Healthcare Baby


The GOP is willing to disrupt the health care debate if they can't win it. Yesterday in Tampa, a mob of Glenn Beck supporters nearly caused a riot. The Republican is an uncaring idiot who cares for no one but itself? To hell with the guy in the street!

Friday August 7, 2009, 1:30 pm
Anti-Reform Group Takes Credit For Helping Gin Up Town Hall Rallies

Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, the operation that’s running a national campaign against a public health care option, is now publicly taking credit for helping gin up the sometimes-rowdy outbursts targeting House Dems at town hall meetings around the country, raising questions about their
spontaneity.

CPR is the group headed by controversial former hospitals exec Rick Scott that’s spending millions on ads attacking reform in all sorts of lurid ways, a campaign that’s being handled by the same P.R. mavens behind the Swift Boat Vets.

In response to my questions, a spokesman for the group confirmed that it has undertaken a concerted effort to get people out to the town hall meetings to protest reform. The spokesperson, Brian Burgess,
confirmed that CPR is emailing out “town hall alert” flyers, and schedules of town hall meetings, to its mailing list.

These efforts — combined with CPR’s effort to enlist Tea Party-ers, as reported yesterday by TPM — provide a glimpse into the ways anti-reform groups are trying to create a sense of public momentum in their favor.

CPR spokesman Burgess confirmed that the group had set up a list serv designed to reach out to “third party groups” involved in the health care fight, including the Tea Party activists. And in a statement emailed to me, Scott, who was ousted as a health-care exec amid a 1990s fraud probe, took credit for the town hall showings.

“We have invested a lot of time, energy and resources into educating Americans over the past several months about the dangers of government-run health care and I think we’re seeing some of the fruits of that campaign,” Scott said, though he claimed outrage was spontaneous.

Similarly, America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP, the insurance industry group, has stationed employees in 30 states to track local town hall events.

The question is whether these uprisings are actually helpful to the anti-reform cause, or whether their raucus agitprop will work againt them. Dems have blasted out to reporters examples of protestors harrassing House Dems.

“The more you dig the more you learn that this is a carefully orchestrated effort by special interest lobbyists and the Republican Party, who are using fringe elements on the right to protect insurance company profits and defeat health care reform,” said House Dem leadership aide Doug Thornell. “The anger at these events looks very similar to what we saw at McCain/Palin rallies in the fall.”

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Update: The White House attacks CPR for manufacturing anger.

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Posted by Greg Sargent | 08/04/2009, 12:12 PM EST | Categories: House Dems, health care, political advertising

Saturday August 8, 2009, 6:03 pm

Mel Martinez and the Last Nail in the Republican Diversity CoffinMartínez's
move can been seen as another accomplished person of color flipping a metaphorical middle finger at all the Republicans have devolved into: The party of the "angry white voter."




Readmore...

Sunday August 9, 2009, 8:36 pm
Question for GOP Leaders: What Would It Take for You to Condemn the Hatefulness?
With all of this hateful and violent rhetoric going on, I haven't seen one Republican leader asking for people to cool their rhetoric, or heard them condemn any of these tactics.

Sunday August 9, 2009, 9:37 pm

Newshoggers: The source of the insanity.

Sunday August 9, 2009, 9:52 pm
Two Words for Palin, Gingrich and the Rest of the GOP Who Fear an Imaginary Federal "Death Panel"



Sun Hudson
Thank you. And thanks, Kaybee, for the reminder.

Doctors say he had a genetic deformity, a lethal form of dwarfism in which the lungs do not grow large enough to support life. Doctors felt that further treatment was futile. His mother, Wanda, argued that all he needed was time to develop. The court sided with the doctors and allowed them to disconnect the ventilator. This is allowed in Texas under the Advance Directives Act, signed into law in 1999 by Gov. George W. Bush.



And the 2005 decision to remove the ventilator was made under the watchful eye of Republican governor Rick Perry.


Posted on Aug 09, 2009 at 02:09 PM in Health Care, Right Wing Madness

Monday August 10, 2009, 11:21 am
When there's a RepubliCON mob ... alway$ follow the money ...

Coal Lobby’s ‘Purest Form Of Grassroots’ Delivered By GOP Voter Fraud Company

Paid staff will both call people already on the group’s list and talk to other people at public events, asking them if they want information or T-shirts or would be interested in asking a question at a town hall meeting. “This is the purest form of grassroots,” Lucas said. “It’s facilitating constituents to talk one-on-one with members of Congress.

The new project will use 225,000 volunteers dubbed “America’s Power Army.” They will visit town hall meetings, fairs and other functions attended by members of Congress and ask misleading questions about energy policy.

Anti-Reform Group Takes Credit For Helping Gin Up Town Hall Rallies
Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, the operation that’s running a national campaign against a public health care option, is now publicly taking credit for helping gin up the sometimes-rowdy outbursts targeting House Dems at town hall meetings around the country, raising questions about their spontaneity.

CPR is the group headed by controversial former hospitals exec Rick Scott that’s spending millions on ads attacking reform in all sorts of lurid ways, a campaign that’s being handled by the same P.R. mavens behind the Swift Boat Vets.

Monday August 10, 2009, 1:05 pm
The Last Gasp of the Angry White Man




What we're seeing in these angry town halls these days is the last gasp of the angry white man. He's not quite sure what he's angry about, but he knows he's angry. It's not the world he used to know. He gets the disquieting feeling that he doesn't rule the roost anymore. And it's driving him crazy.

One of the chants at the town hall events
was, "No national healthcare!" Okay, mission accomplished. No one has proposed such a thing. So, I guess they can go home now befuddled at what they were yelling about.

The reality is that what they have been manipulated into arguing against is a public option that would give them more choices, not less in health insurance. It wouldn't nationalize health insurance at all, let alone any part of the rest of the healthcare industry.

» article continues...

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 11:07 am
Countdown Special Comment: STOP THE LIES! The Clear & Present Danger Isn't Obama's Agenda; It's GOP Talking Points


Keith Olbermann calls out the dangerous rhetoric and lies of Sarah Palin and her other GOP cohorts--such as Glenn Beck and Sen. John Cornyn--scaring the populace with their outrageous fear mongering over health care reform.

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 12:48 pm

Republican Protester With a Handgun Outside of President Obama's NH Town Hall


Do you think anybody would be allowed to be near President Bush who had a huge gun strapped on his leg? I doubt that, but this is the country the right wing wants us to live in. And if Sen. John Thune had his way, it wouldn't matter what NH law said...

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 12:57 pm
Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs Enflame Scary Right-Wing Rage The conservative playbook has been laid bare, and it's ugly. How long until their overheated

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 1:39 pm
Handguns and Health Care Reform

Exhortations to the right wing base to take armed political action against the Obama administration are far from idle talk--but instead reflect a deeply developed ideology that has been actively promoted by the National Rifle Association and other gun lobby groups for the past 30 years. It holds that the Second Amendment provides individuals with the right to commit acts of violence against our government should it lapse into "tyranny," effectively making firearms "the tools of political dissent." Or as NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre put it at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, "The guys with the guns make the rules."

The problem is that there are already a substantial number of well-armed Americans who believe our democratically-elected government has become oppressive. Indeed, last week Tea Partiers at a town hall meeting in Tampa, Florida, heckled Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) with repeated chants of "Tyranny!" Far from furthering democracy, however, these individuals have made important debate impossible, thereby limiting the political rights of all those who disagree with them.

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 4:00 pm
Fox News Criticized For "One-Sided" Town Hall Coverage

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 9:40 am
Whistleblower: Insurance firms behind town hall disruptions
Man arrested at Obama event had loaded gunHeld in police custody; was also carrying pocket knife...
Stewart recalls conservative attacks on anti-war protesters

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 11:04 am
SPLC report: The "Second Wave" of militia activity is now upon us

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 11:59 am
WATCH: Rosa Parks Poster Torn Up At McCaskill Town Hall

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 1:37 pm
Republican Senator Grassley Endorses "Death Panel" Rumor/Lie: "You Have Every Right To Fear"

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 2:23 pm
Obama-Nazi Sign Made By Ill Woman On Medicare

Outside, the gathering verged on a street brawl. The opposing forces lined up like screaming armies on either side of the street, about 1,000 people a side. Diane Campbell of Kingston, N.H., held a sign with Mr. Obama's face superimposed on a Nazi storm trooper, a sign, she said, that was made by her chronically ill mother.

Her mother's hereditary autoimmune disease is treated with expensive transfusions of gamma globulin, paid for by Medicare. Her sister, Louise, was born with no arms and one leg, and is also covered by Medicare, the government-run, health-insurance program for the elderly and disabled.

Read the whole story: Wall Street Journal

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 3:44 pm
* A conservative activist held a "Death to Obama" sign at a town-hall event in Maryland today.

* Another Republican official sending racist emails and assassination jokes? Imagine that.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 8:52 pm
California councilman joked about assassinating Obama

Thursday August 13, 2009, 7:20 pm
'Death To Obama' Sign Holder Detained In Maryland

Saturday August 15, 2009, 1:40 pm
* After all the fuss about every lawmaker reading every word of the health care bill, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) of Kentucky opposes reform despite not having read the legislation.

Saturday August 15, 2009, 2:29 pm
Where Do the Republican Health Care Lies Come From? Liberty Counsel Document

Sunday August 16, 2009, 2:28 pm
The brutal truth about America's healthcare vs Stephen Hawking, who said, "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.." And a student who suddenly found himself unable to move and had to be supported by his wife would not have been able to get that sort of care in the United States at all, let alone be kept alive and allowed the time to think that made it possible for him to become *the* Stephen Hawking.

Sunday August 16, 2009, 4:28 pm
WHITE HOUSE STILL BACKS PUBLIC OPTION

Monday August 17, 2009, 10:35 pm
at-Largely: Free speech protection does not cover death threats

Tuesday August 18, 2009, 5:27 pm
WATCH: Man Who Brought Assault Rifle To Obama Rally Was Part Of Radio Stunt

The man with the semi-automatic (referred to in interviews as "Chris," no last name) was spotted at the protest by CNN news cameras, in the middle of a Q&A. Today, his interviewer -- Ernest Hancock of conservative talk radio show Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock -- went on CNN and explained to host Rick Sanchez that he and Chris were actually in the middle of a radio broadcast. Hancock, also packing heat at the rally, had invited Chris to come down the protest with his rifle to be interviewed. The two men had known each other for two years, through their work for presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).

During the segment on CNN, Rick Sanchez said, "the more we look into this, the more it appears that it was really planned." Hancock concurred: "Oh, it's more planned than you think." In addition to scheduling the interview, Hancock had also informed the local police force.

As the interview continued, Rick Sanchez loudly exclaimed, "This was a publicity stunt!"

"Oh absolutely," Hancock responded.

Sanchez pushed on, "isn't there something terribly disingenuous about putting people on like that? And isn't there also something a little bit... dangerous about playing these kinda games--"

"Oh, it's not a game," Chris interjected.

"---with what I imagine is a loaded weapon," Sanchez continued.....

Chris is also featured in a YouTube video produced by the libertarian group Freedom's Phoenix. In this video he expounds further on his right to bear arms. He also explains that he is "absolutely totally against health care... health care in this way, in this manner, stealing it from people. I don't think that's appropriate."

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 2:11 pm
Phoenix police helped Obama gun-toters, radio host admits

Saturday August 22, 2009, 12:40 pm
When wingnut CEOs write op/ed pieces...Can Whole Foods Repair Its Image?Turns out comparing unions to herpes and raving against health care reform in The Wall Street Journal isn’t great for business, at least when your business sells granola to progressives, hippies and other Truthdig readers. Whole Foods CEO John Mackey’s efforts have earned him a boycott. Guess we’ll just have to get our gluten-free almond cookies elsewhere.

The Opinionator has a broad selection of reaction from the blogosphere. Top of its post is below. —PS

New York Times:

Of all the sideshows to the Great 2009 Health Care Debate, the Whole Foods boycott may take the prize as the most unexpected.

Last Wednesday, John Mackey, the chief executive of Whole Foods, took to the pages of The Wall Street Journal to opine that “we clearly need health care reform,” but arguing against the solutions being put forward by the administration: “The last thing our country needs is a massive new health care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health care system.”

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Saturday August 22, 2009, 6:56 pm
Bu$h/RepubliCON$ can't "cut and run" thi$ time ...
YouTube - Coundown: The Bush Legacy-Eight Years in Eight Minuteshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLpkeDg7uyI&eurl=http://crooksandliars.com/

Wednesday August 26, 2009, 9:24 am
Right wing suggests 9/11 event is 'socialist'

GOP senator ignored Obama assassination threat

Thursday August 27, 2009, 8:44 am
McCain Evicts Angry Woman From Town Hall

Thursday August 27, 2009, 7:56 pm
GOP Rep.: Republicans Struggling To Find "Great White Hope" To Lead Them Back To Power

Tuesday September 1, 2009, 11:56 am
Beck guest: Health reform may spark ‘black genocide’

Tuesday September 1, 2009, 12:24 pm
Poll: Republicans, Southerners most unpatriotic

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 8:13 am
Pastor to Obama: Please Die, Now!


Pastor Steven Anderson prays for the death of President Obama. Have the politics of hate gone too far, or is Mr. Anderson an isolated case?"

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 8:46 am
The "Intolerance" Party? GOP Strategists Worry Ideologues Are Bad For The Party's Future

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 12:11 pm
Who's Laughing Now? Turning the Tide on Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins!

Kandas Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins' constituents are fed up with the embarrassing national headlines and her lack of leadership. The more time she spends in her
district, the more voters have buyers remorse.

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 5:37 pm
When it comes to healthcare, there is no lie a conservative will not tell.

Thursday September 3, 2009, 1:56 pm
* CNN's Lou Dobbs hasn't been making as many headlines lately, but he's planning to be involved in a very disturbing event in about two weeks, which will be even more offensive than his usual broadcasts.

Take Action: Stop Dobbs' -& CNN's- Participation In Hate Group Rally - Keep FAIR From Getting Mainstream Legitimacy

Sept 15&16, Dobbs to broadcast show from Capitol Hill as leading voice of annual advocacy rally sponsored by rabidly anti-immigrant org FAIR,
labeled "hate group" by SouthernPovertyLawCenter. Tell CNN not to bestow mainstream legitimacy on extremist group

Friday September 4, 2009, 2:02 pm
The Barack "School Yard" Panic: How Much A Racist Thing?

Chris Stigall, a Kansas City talk show host, said, “I’m not letting my next-door neighbor talk to my kid alone; I’m sure as hell not letting Barack Obama talk to him alone. -- Some Parents Oppose Obama Speech to Students (NYT)

I'm not saying the latest right-wing hysteria tactic -- demonizing Obama's outreach to school children -- directly parallels the McCain campaign ad below.

I do think it's interesting revisiting the post below, however, which I originally ran six days short of a year ago. Beyond all the "state indoctrination" and even Hitler Youth analogies being propagated by Obama's school chat, I'm wondering how much there is (or is also) a racist meme at play. It's something along the lines of: You can't trust your children alone with this man ... knowing how black men are. Wink, wink.
From: Sep 09, 2008: McCain Ad Ties Sex With Race

In today's trip to the swamp, the McCain campaign's latest attack video ostensibly targets the Obama's education plan.

... Except, the issue serves as nothing more than a foil to intimate that Obama -- shown in the screen shot with a smarmy grin and his coat looking frumpy -- desires to sexualize the lives of young children. More odious, however, it's also an example of the McCain campaign playing the race card, activating stereotypes of the black man -- seeming to gaze dreamily at something below (or shorter than) him -- as driven by sexual appetite.

(screen shot: McCain for President)

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Friday September 4, 2009, 6:54 pm
Nothing I can say will prepare you for this (although in deference to Chi Dyke,* I will warn that it involves Glenn Beck. (This is just depressing. They're the optimists.) You might need The Window Cleaner to help wash your brain out. (Thanks to Anna.)

Friday September 4, 2009, 7:54 pm
MSNBC yanked Pat Buchanan's Hitler defense from its site yesterday. No word on whether the column will affect his role as a political pundit for the network.

Sunday September 13, 2009, 9:11 am
No More Code Words: Racism is Public Again



Must read Kristof on health care, http://tinyurl.com/pg2og4 and Dowd on racism, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/opinion/13dowd.html?ref=opinion

Tuesday October 6, 2009, 12:27 pm
19 more advertisers ditch Glenn Beck...that's a total of 81 advertisers lost, so far...